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Re:Linode under large DoS attack by seancoleman on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @06:46PM (#7228308)
I think it's interesting that this is hosted on a TypePad blog (You can tell from the favicon).
Re:Linode under large DoS attack by kochman on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @07:05PM (#7228412)
This is standard operating procedure for many companies in the VPS and server market. It's to ensure that they can keep customers updated even if all of their infrastructure goes down. Some companies take it a step further and put their status page on a completely separate domain, e.g. DreamHost's http://www.dreamhoststatus.com
Re:Linode under large DoS attack by hrrsn on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @10:05PM (#7229078)
And a separate network :)

$ host dreamhoststatus.com

dreamhoststatus.com has address 96.126.109.82

$ nslookup 96.126.109.82

Non-authoritative answer:

82.109.126.96.in-addr.arpa name = li366-82.members.linode.com.

Re:Linode under large DoS attack by rahimnathwani on Thursday February 13, 2014 @01:28AM (#7229844)
But the same DNS servers :(

$ nslookup > set type=ns > dreamhoststatus.com Server: 192.168.1.1 Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer: dreamhoststatus.com nameserver = ns3.dreamhost.com. dreamhoststatus.com nameserver = ns2.dreamhost.com. dreamhoststatus.com nameserver = ns1.dreamhost.com.